Assignment 4

This assignment has definitely been the hardest. The ROAR site helped as did the article on metadata.
The article helped when it related metadata schemes to cataloging.
It makes sense now about metadata schemes or schema. Metadata schemes include Dublin Core (dev. to be simple, concise, and describe Web-based documents); Text Encoding Initiative (TEI- electronic versions of printed text); Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS- developed to fill the need for a standard data structure for describing complex digital library objects); Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS, derivative of MARC 21 intended to carry data from existing MARC 21 records); EAD; LOM are most common ones.

I read several articles at the dlib.org website and understood most of them.

Another good resources was the Library Technology Reports, 2002, issue 38 (5).

I hope to finish up this assignment tonight.